http://blogs.msdn.com/carlosfigueira/archive/2008/04/17/wcf-raw-programming-model-web.aspxI've seen quite a few times in the forums people asking how to control exactly how the data returned by a WCF service. People want to use a certain format for the output of the data which isn't (natively) supported by WCF, such as XML or JSON. A few examplesen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/carlosfigueira/archive/2008/04/17/wcf-raw-programming-model-web.aspx#8405004Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:41:38 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8405004Carlos' blog<p>The previous post mentioned how to return arbitrary data from WCF services. To receive data, however,</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/carlosfigueira/archive/2008/04/17/wcf-raw-programming-model-web.aspx#8849576Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:37:57 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8849576sujeetsSpace<p>What the differnt ways you can dispose the Stream that is returned? One way is to dispose the stream when the service type is disposed. However that will only work for per call mode.</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/carlosfigueira/archive/2008/04/17/wcf-raw-programming-model-web.aspx#9063396Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:16:57 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9063396richardcollette<p>Interesting. &nbsp;The benefit that I see but not clearly stated here is that you are able to produce HTTP (and only Http since WebOperationContext is being used) protocol services that do not rely on IIS. &nbsp; It is like an httpHandler except no dependency on IIS.</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/carlosfigueira/archive/2008/04/17/wcf-raw-programming-model-web.aspx#9905530Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:55:44 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9905530dotnetCarpenter<p>I've been looking all over the Net for this! You are a god send!</p>